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roytam1 ... I really like the New Moon browser. It does everything I need and I am using it nearly 100% these days.
It gets good Protocol and test results at the SSL Test page ... thanks. I am also following you at the K-Meleon forum. You are busy ! I have made my version portable which I like better to keep my settings and use on any WinXP computer ... I have three at the moment.
Protocol Support
Your user agent has good protocol support.
Your user agent supports TLS 1.2, which is recommended protocol version at the moment.
Experimental: Your user agent supports TLS 1.3.
Logjam Vulnerability
Your user agent is not vulnerable.
For more information about the Logjam attack, please go to weakdh.org.
To test manually, click here. Your user agent is not vulnerable if it fails to connect to the site.
FREAK Vulnerability
Your user agent is not vulnerable.
For more information about the FREAK attack, please go to www.freakattack.com.
To test manually, click here. Your user agent is not vulnerable if it fails to connect to the site.
POODLE Vulnerability
Your user agent is not vulnerable.
For more information about the POODLE attack, please read this blog post.
Protocol Features
Protocols:
TLS 1.3Yes
TLS 1.2Yes
TLS 1.1Yes
TLS 1.0Yes
SSL 3No
SSL 2No
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I happen to like 'New Moon' as the name and hope it will stay that way. It just seems fitting.
A New Moon every month till we get to see another wonderful Full Moon ... Google search
"The new moon is the phase that is invisible to us here on Earth because the moon is between the earth and the sun, and its illuminated side is facing away from us. The new moon marks the beginning of the lunar cycle, the movement of the moon through its different phases."
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My thoughts are ... if (and it's a very big if) I owned a huge amount of acreage and was lucky enough to have the asteroid land (crash) on my property, it would belong to me ... right ? ... providing I survive the impact.
Finders - keepers and all that stuff ... then I could claim 'mineral rights' ... I'd be smoking those big fat $50 cigars, but I don't smoke.
Asteroids can have real value ...
Single asteroid worth £60 trillion if it was mined – as much as world earns in a year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2147404/Found-The-single-asteroid-thats-worth-60-billion-years-financial-output-entire-WORLD.html
One single asteroid in our solar system - 241 Germania - has $95.8 (£60) trillion of mineral wealth inside it - nearly the same as the annual GDP of the entire WORLD.
The finding comes in the wake of the founding of Planetary Resources, a venture backed by Avatar director James Cameron, which aims to mine asteroids for their wealth.
Asterank is based on publicly available information - and aims to catalogue the enormous wealth in the solar system, and also how little is currently known about what lies out there.

Size is estimated between 10 and 30 meters ... myself, not exactly sure how large 30 meters might be ... found this example from China of a 30 meter bus that carries 256 passengers.
World's Longest Bus is 30 Meters Long and Carries 256 Passengers
http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/world-s-longest-bus-is-30-meters-long-and-carries-256-passengers.html
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30-metre Asteroid Skimming Past Earth in October Will Test Nasa's Doomsday 'Planetary Defence System'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4746010/Nasa-test-defence-asteroid-skims-past-Earth.html
Asteroid 2012 TC4 will pass 4,200 miles from Earth on October 12
Nasa is using the flyby to test its asteroid detection and tracking network
As it starts to approach Earth, telescopes will establish its precise trajectory
The observations are expected to help refine knowledge about its orbit
By Shivali Best - Mailonline
31 July 2017
On October 12, a 30-metre asteroid is set to make a 'close' flyby of Earth.
The asteroid, named 2012 TC4, will pass just 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometres) from Earth for the first time since it went out of range in 2012.
Nasa is using this opportunity to test it's 'planetary defence system' put in place to protect Earth from a doomsday asteroid threat.
Asteroid 2012 TC4 is estimated to be between 10 and 30 metres in size.
Michael Kelley, a scientist working on the Nasa TC4 observation campaign, said: 'Scientists have always appreciated knowing when an asteroid will make a close approach to and safely pass the Earth because they can make preparations to collect data to characterise and learn as much as possible about it.
'This time we are adding in another layer of effort, using this asteroid flyby to test the worldwide asteroid detection and tracking network, assessing our capability to work together in response to finding a potential real asteroid threat.'
Nasa hopes to use its international network of observatories to recover, track and characterise 2012 TC4.
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https://www.cnet.com/news/asteroid-2017-001-close-pass-space-earth-nasa-undetected/
A plane-size asteroid buzzes by Earth undetected
A big space rock slipped right by us last week and was only spotted as it left our cosmic neighborhood.
Eric Mack - July 27, 2017
Astronomers first spotted an asteroid about as long as a 737 passenger jet on Sunday and analyzed its path to determine it had made a close pass by our planet three days earlier.
In other words, the big space rock slipped right by us without being detected and was only seen in our cosmic rear-view mirror.
While the asteroid, now named 2017 001, flew right on by without incident, it was a relatively close pass. It came within about one-third the distance between Earth and the moon, roughly 76,448 miles (123,031 km).
With an estimated size of between 82 and 256 feet (25 and 78 meters), it was around three times as big as the bolide that entered our atmosphere in 2013 and exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, blowing out windows and causing numerous injuries on the ground. That house-size bit of cosmic debris also had been previously undetected.
It's not that it's impossible to detect asteroids when they come close to us, either. A much smaller asteroid that passed even closer was spotted on its approach in January.
In the case of the plane-size asteroid, which was first seen by telescopes in Hawaii, it appears to be very dark or nonreflective, which probably made it harder to spot, according to NASA Solar System Ambassador Eddie Irizarry.
Also, space is a very large place filled with thousands of near-Earth asteroids. While many of them have been cataloged and are tracked, it seems we still don't have quite enough eyes, human or digital, to spot all of them.
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Just to add ... when you get the Thinkpad T60, if you find the fan never shuts off ... there are two good fan utilities in the forum developed by members.
ThinkPad Forum
https://forum.thinkpads.com//
... on that page go to the bottom thread 'ThinkPad Utility Work Area' ...
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=27&sid=56fdb93704fb4a9a1f18b011d9e9454d
I like TPFC v0.62 by troubadix but I don't use X64.
TPFanControl by troubadix
Download latest version WinXP/Vista, 32/64bit, Celsius/Fahrenheit, service/non_service from TPFanControl.com
http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/tpfc.html?prx-ref:http://tpfancontrol.com/
At the TP forum there is also a lot of reading.
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Just a hint to go over to the ThinkPad forum ... they have several sellers that will also build a FrankenPad to order or have built several already for themselves. There will probably be some help and answers there.
ThinkPad Forum
https://forum.thinkpads.com//
ThinkPad T6x Series
T60/T61 series specific matters only
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=1b81eda2725f1f2823bea1f030c52c8d
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Maybe this is old news ... article dated July 25, 2017
http://www.oann.com/adobe-to-pull-plug-on-flash-ending-an-era/
Adobe to Pull Plug on Flash, Ending an Era
July 25, 2017
By Salvador Rodriguez
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash, a once-ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday.
Adobe, along with partners Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc and Mozilla Corp, said support for Flash will ramp down across the internet in phases over the next three years.
After 2020, Adobe will stop releasing updates for Flash and web browsers will no longer support it. The companies are encouraging developers to migrate their software onto modern programming standards.
“Few technologies have had such a profound and positive impact in the internet era,” said Govind Balakrishnan, vice president of product development for Adobe Creative Cloud.
Created more than 20 years ago, Flash was once the preferred software used by developers to create games, video players and applications capable of running on multiple web browsers. When Adobe acquired Flash in its 2005 purchase of Macromedia, the technology was on more than 98 percent of personal computers connected to the web, Macromedia said at the time.
But Flash’s popularity began to wane after Apple’s decision not to support it on the iPhone.
In a public letter in 2010, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs criticized Flash’s reliability, security and performance. Since then, other technologies like HTML5 have emerged as alternatives to Flash.
In the past year, several web browsers have begun to require users to enable Flash before running it.
On Google’s Chrome, the most popular web browser, Flash’s usage has already fallen drastically. In 2014, Flash was used each day by 80 percent of desktop users. That number is now at 17 percent “and continues to decline,” Google said in a blog Tuesday.
“This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash,” Google said. “They’re also more secure.”
Flash, however, remains in use among some online gamers. Adobe said it will work with Facebook as well as Unity Technologies and Epic Games to help developers migrate their games.
Adobe said it does not expect Flash’s sunset to have an impact on its bottom line. “In fact, we think the opportunity for Adobe is greater in a post-Flash world,” Balakrishnan said.
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I thought there was something familiar about GreenBrowser ... I did hear of it years ago, when there were many 'IE shell browsers' for Windows available. There was always a warning about using those types of browsers and only using a browser completely free or separate of Internet Explorer.
I suppose that is another piece of information that will be important to know about each new browser ... maybe there are not that many IE shell browsers around anymore, but there must still be a few.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_shell
Internet Explorer shell
... list of browsers from the article:
IE shells
These applications supplement some of Internet Explorer's usual user interface components for browsing, adding features such as popup blocking and tabbed browsing. For example, MSN Explorer can be considered an Internet Explorer shell, in that it is essentially an expansion of IE with added MSN-related functionality. A more complete list of Trident-based browsers can be found under the list of web browsers.
AOL Explorer[1] (discontinued)
Avant Browser[2]
BriskBard[3]
Deepnet Explorer (Discontinued)
GreenBrowser
IE Tab add-on that allows to view pages through the Internet Explorer layout engine and can be used in conjunction with various browsers, if required
Lunascape
Maxthon[4] (formerly MyIE2[2])
MenuBox
MSN Explorer
NeoPlanet (discontinued)
NetCaptor[2] (discontinued)
Netscape Browser 8.x (used both Trident and Gecko)[5] (discontinued)
Sleipnir
SlimBrowser
Tencent Traveler
TomeRaider
UltraBrowser (discontinued)
WebbIE
Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers e.g. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.). (Discontinued)
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The merge of the two similiar threads was very good ... should work just fine for the future. I feel my thread had run its course. The newer thread started by ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ is more involved with many new browsers being mentioned ... many of which, I have never heard of.
I've tried several and didn't care for a few ... but no doubt, more will come along.
As I said earlier, my thread was not this involved and seems outdated ... which in my mind, it is almost obsolete with the date '2017' still in the title. I think somewhere along the way ... 2017 should be removed and the thread title be changed to reflect the approaching future ... 2018 and beyond. Just a suggestion for for someone at 'headquarters' to kick around.
Perhaps just simply ... 'Browsers Still Working with WinXP' ... something else could be added after WinXP but I have no ideas.

Anybody into old cars and such might find this interesting. This guy had everything, including buses, tractors and bumper cars. There was a 1947 Indian Chief motorcycle with side car. I never heard of that model. Also, "milk trucks, ambulances, limousines, muscle cars, sports cars, three-wheelers, and even a couple of amphibious Amphicar 770s" were in the auction. Imagine all the storage space, if everything was indoors?
From the article:
"The disbursement of Ron Hackenberger’s massive collection included 700 cars, trucks, vans, buses, motorcycles, scooters, tractors, bumper cars, and horse-drawn buggies. The total for cars, trucks, and motorcycles sold was $1.67 million. The overall total, including tractors, buggies, and memorabilia sold, was about $2 million."
http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/07/20/1947-indian-chief-rides-off-with-top-bid-at-700-vehicle-hackenberger-auction.html
1947 Indian Chief Rides Off with Top Bid at 700-vehicle Hackenberger Auction
Andrew Newton - July 20, 2017
In a sea of cars that actually included a couple of sea-worthy vehicles, a motorcycle stole the spotlight at VanDerBrink Auctions’ two-day, two-location, no-reserve auction in Norwalk, Ohio, over the weekend.
The disbursement of Ron Hackenberger’s massive collection included 700 cars, trucks, vans, buses, motorcycles, scooters, tractors, bumper cars, and horse-drawn buggies. The total for cars, trucks, and motorcycles sold was $1.67 million. The overall total, including tractors, buggies, and memorabilia sold, was about $2 million.
A lifelong enthusiast, Hackenberger accumulated items for decades and dreamed of opening a museum one day. His plans never reached fruition, however, so he decided to part with the majority of his collection. Hackenberger’s first three cars were Studebakers—a 1948 Champion, 1952 Champion, and 1956 Golden Hawk—and his love for the brand never waned. More than 200 pre- and post-war Studebakers were offered. Beyond those Indiana-based Studebakers, Hackenberger’s collection was incredibly diverse and included milk trucks, ambulances, limousines, muscle cars, sports cars, three-wheelers, and even a couple of amphibious Amphicar 770s.
One thing that all of the auction vehicles seemed to have in common was their condition. Many of those sold on Saturday were running project cars at best, while Sunday’s lineup was full of vehicles that looked to be parts cars. The old phrase “ran when parked” was used frequently in the auction catalogue. That meant that buyers looking for a cheap project were spoiled for choice. The average sale price was barely $4,000, and many hammered at less than half that.
The top sale of the auction was a restored 1947 Indian Chief with original sidecar that went for $37,800, even though it reportedly hadn’t seen the road in 15 years. The top selling automobile was a 1965 Amphicar 770 at $31,500; another much-rougher example sold for $13,650. Other notable sales on the high end included a 1971 Citroen DS for $9,450, a very rough 1954 Kaiser Darrin Roadster for $21,000, a decent 1963 Studebaker Avanti for $15,225, a very rough 1949 Tatra T600 Tatraplan for $23,100, a 1967 Porsche 912 for $26,250, and a 1958 Packard Supercharged Hawk for $19,950. Prices include a 5-percent commission.
Otherwise, there truly was something for just about everyone. There were microcars and small cars from Crosley, Metropolitan, Reliant, King Midget, Bantam and Vespa; British sports cars; Japanese Datsuns and Hondas; French Citroëns and Panhards; and German Borgwards. There were also plenty of unusual American automobiles, including Checker limousines and wagons, firetrucks, DIVCO milk trucks, and orphan cars from Packard, DeSoto, Hudson, and Nash.
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Mathwiz ... that holds merit ... sort of like a large 'school of small fish' darting around, in and out. It's supposed to be confusing to a larger predator ... but I'm sure some get eaten ... but 'safety' is just keep moving and hope with the 'large numbers' of small shiny fish.
Either at the Proxomitron forum or the K-Meleon forum ... there was a discussion about user agents some years back and not giving out any more information than you actually have to. So maybe having several User Agents available ... a 'barebones' type and a few loaded with some information to work at certain trouble sites.
One of the members posted the UA he uses (barebones) and I used it but along the way I have lost it. It may not even work that good in today's world. Still wish I could locate that old UA.
So in reference to your earlier post ... what do you think would be a good common 'school of fish' User Agent worth trying.
jumper ... that's good information about a BOT UA. I had more trouble with sites when I used the Google Bot UA ... with the DuckDuckGo Bot ... only once in awhile am I refused entry ... like once or twice a month. Then I just switch to a common FFox Win7 UA for that site.
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